Notes subsequent to induction:

It was not uncommon for these players to play with other teams in their district.   Other names associated with the team that year were:  Billington (3rd Base) Bonneyman (Outfielder),  Currie/Curry (3rd Base, Outfielder, Pitcher) Felland (1st Base), Mohler (Outfielder), and Price (Outfielder).

The Wetaskiwin Cubs played in a busy league that included:  Edmonton, Strathcona, Calgary, Red Deer, Innisfail, Fort Saskatchewan, Leduc, Nanton, Olds, Okotoks, and Ponoka, Canmore, Banff, MacLeod, Taver, Medicine Hat, Lethbridge and Frank.   Besides their season league games, they played exhibition games, tournaments.  The Cubs met tough competitive teams from other Provinces and the Territories of Western Canada as well as from the British Columbia Interior, Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, Washington State, and Puget Sound.

Here are some quotes from that 1903 - 1906 era:  

Playing in chilly conditions, Wetaskiwin won their home opener, defeating Strathcona 14 to 13. 

A snappy Wetaskiwin nine outclassed Calgary to the tune of 5 to 2. Winning pitcher Pitman/Pittman held the Cow Towners to five safeties with two being stroked by both Tom Tarrant and third baseman McLean.  Catcher Gouche of the victors clipped the orb for three safeties, including a pair of doubles. 

In the first baseball game of the season at the Wetaskiwin diamond on Good Friday, the "local nine" scored a easy 14-3 decision over Ponoka. After giving up a run in the top of the first stanza, Wetaskiwin plated two in the second and four in the third and coasted to the win.

In their home opener, Edmonton Capitals booted the ball eight times in dropping a 3-2 decision to Wetaskiwin. Pittman for the visitors and Ernie Vining for Edmonton pitched outstanding ball, each giving up but three hits.  Wetaskiwin took the lead with a pair in the second frame as Bennett and Murray both reached on errors and scored on passed balls. Edmonton tied the count in the third as Cronn bunted for a hit and scored on McGirl's two-bagger. McGirl moved up on an error and came home on an infield grounder. The visitors got the winner in the eighth as Martin singled, advanced on an error, stole third and then romped home on yet another miscue.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

In the first decades of the 1900's,  ball diamonds were not groomed like we find them today.  Here's an  insight from a player who played for an Alberta team in the 50s.

We had expected to find some pretty primitive playing fields, which we did.  I broke a foot playing, not knowing how I did it ... stepped in a hole or on a rock ... In the outfield there would be clumps of grass some as high as your knees, and bare spots ... not always level. In Vulcan at the second ballpark, in the rightfield corner you were looking up over a hill and couldn't see the whole batter, just the upper part of his body. It was interesting."  

One can only imagine was it like for the Wetaskiwin Cubs back in 1904.  These champions must have had  great stories about the fields and the teams they played.